From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:25:02 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] xbow.c kmalloc fixes Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On 20 Oct 2003 04:46:03 -0400, Jes Sorensen said: >>>>> "David" = David Mosberger writes: David> So what should be done about these SN2 cleanups? I don't David> want to accept dozens of small "fixes" (which really are David> mostly cleanups) as that would defeat the idea of the David> code-fixes-only decree. On the other hand, I really would David> like to see the SN2 code cleaned up so we actually have a David> sane base to do bug fixes on top of. Jes> I am in two minds over this, I agree that getting the sn2 code Jes> cleaned up is a big win and a lot of the changes like those I Jes> posted are clearly bug fixes (not checking kmalloc returns Jes> should always be fixed). However having a big patch will take Jes> time and means we will have to operate with an internal tree Jes> until we get the whole thing into shape to push, but the Jes> seperate tree is one of the things we have been trying to avoid Jes> with 2.6. What came first, the chicken or the soft boiled egg Jes> ;-( The issue may be moot already. Now that test8 is out, I'm not sure Andrew/Linus would still accept large at all patches anymore. --david